Video calls helped friends and families fight loneliness during the pandemic. Parrots normally live in flocks, so would video calls help them feel less lonely? That was the subject of an experiment by Dr. Ilyena Hirskyj-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/23/Parrots-Enjoy-Making-Video-Calls-to-Each-Other/The European Space Agency (ESA) held a contest to come up with drink recipes in honor of their launch of a space probe called "Juice" that will explore Jupiter's moons looking for signs of life. The wonderfully imaginati...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/23/Europa-Geology-the-Official-Mocktail-of-the-European-Space-Agency/In this sweet little story, a guy (Mr. Butter, we find out) wants ice cream but he can't catch the ice cream truck. It also appears that he will never encounter that ice cream truck again. So he decides to make some at h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/23/Homemade-Ice-Cream-Turns-Into-an-Epic-Saga/Yes, that's billion with a b. The good people at the World Mosquito Program have a vision for the future of our world and it involves the mass production of mosquitoes on a previously impossible scale.Nature rep...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/23/Scientists-Plan-to-Build-Factory-That-Can-Breed-5-Billion-Mosquitoes-Every-Year/The study of human breast movement is a topic of great interest to many people. Careful, repeated, and sustained observation of this phenomenon is an essential field in physics as a pure science. As an applied science, t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/23/Study-A-Good-Sports-Bra-Can-Improve-Womens-Athletic-Performance/Don't worry about the exhibit quality at the zoo going down. These humans in bird costumes are meant to frighten away seagulls, not attract human visitors.Blackpool is on the Irish Sea, so the Blackpool Zoo attracts a lo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/23/Zoo-Is-Recruiting-Humans-to-Wear-Bird-Costumes/How can you get the highest possible range of movement on a playground swing? Kids have been experimenting with different options for generations. Now we have a carefully examined and mathematically quantifiable study on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/23/Physicists-Determine-the-Ultimate-Strategy-for-the-Playground-Swing/<p>Plastic pollution has been a problem for years now, and its undesirable effects are still felt today in ecosystems across the globe. It is most destructive for aquatic species like fish and turtles. But...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/23/Coastal-Species-Found-In-The-Great-Pacific-Garbage-Patch-Could-Be-Harmful-To-Native-Ecosystems-In-the-Open-Ocean/<p>Spanish athlete Beatriz Flamini thought she had only stayed in the cave for 160-170 days. Almost half a year ago, she agreed to participate in a study attempting to understand the effects of isolation in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/23/Spanish-Athlete-Beatriz-Flamini-s-500-Days-In-A-Cave-Provides-Insights-Into-How-We-Perceive-Time/<p>On land, when it spends its time mating and molting, the northern elephant seal sleeps for nearly 11 hours a day. But when it’s time to forage for food and it has to swim out to sea for months, the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/23/Northern-Elephant-Seals-Only-Sleep-For-About-Two-Hours-When-They-Are-At-Sea/<p>On April 20, 8:33 AM (Local Texas Time), SpaceX’s first-ever integrated Starship rocket — currently the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built — left the ground and soared high in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/04/23/SpaceX-s-First-ever-Starship-Launches-But-Explodes-After-Less-Than-4-Minutes/
